 Japan, our northern kinds of grain are very unfrequent ; and rice is found to predominate. The cause of this difference between the east and the west of the Old Continent, appears to be in the manners and peculiarities of the peo•ple. In North America...  The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal - Page 1351825Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Webster - 1855 - 678 pages
...between the east and the west of the old Continent appears to be in the manners and peculiarities uf the people. In North America, wheat and rye grow as...Maize is more reared in the Western than in the Old World, and rico most cultivated in the southern provinces of the United States. In the torrid zone,... | |
 | Gilbert Thomas Burnett - Botany - 1835 - 538 pages
...affording food for horses and mules. " In the eastern part of the temperate zone of the old continent, in China, and Japan, our northern kinds of grain are...peculiarities of the people. In North America, wheat and n <• grow as in Europe, but more sparingly. Maize is more reared in the western than in the old world... | |
 | Johann Otto Voigt - Botanical gardens - 1845 - 854 pages
...Italy, Greece, the Canaries, Barbary, Egypt, Nubia, Arabia, Persia and N. India. In China and Japan rice is found to predominate. The cause of this difference...in the manners and peculiarities of the people. In N. America, wheat and rye grow as in Europe, but more sparingly. Maize is more reared in the new than... | |
 | John Lindley - 1853 - 1066 pages
...and rice is found to predominate. The cause of this difference between the east and the west of tli" Old Continent appears to be in the manners and peculiarities...and rye grow as in Europe, but more sparingly. Maize i» more reared in the Western than in the Old Continent, and rice predominates in the southern provinces... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - Agriculture - 1857 - 680 pages
...far, this could not have been written better to substantiate the views we are taking, but he adds : " The cause of this difference between the east and...be in the manners and peculiarities of the people." Why not, to use an agricultural expression, put the horse before the cart ? He continues : " In North... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1858 - 808 pages
...China and Japan, our northern kinds of grain are very unfrequeut, and rice is found to preponderate. The cause of this difference between the east and...sparingly. Maize is more reared in the western than iu the old continent, and rice predominates in the southern provinces of the United States. In the... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English literature - 1860 - 638 pages
...temperate zone of the Old Continent, in China and Japan, our northern kinds of grain are very infrequent, and rice is found to predominate. The cause of this...rye grow as in Europe, but more sparingly. Maize is grown more in the Western than in the Old Continent, and rice predominates in the southern provinces... | |
 | Agriculture - 1862 - 406 pages
...China and Japan — our northern kinds of grain are very unfrequent, and rice is found to predominate. In North America wheat and rye grow, as in Europe, but more sparingly. Asia is the native country of rice, and America of maize. Both these grains are found in nearly equal... | |
 | Agriculture - 1861 - 600 pages
...China and Japan— our northern kiuds of grsin are very nnfreqnent, and rice ia found to predominate. In North America wheat and rye grow, as in Europe, but more sparingly. Asia ia the native country of ricf , and America of maize. Both these grains are found in nearly equal... | |
 | Edward Balfour - Asia, Southeastern - 1885 - 1210 pages
...temperate zone of the old continent, in Further India, China, and Japan, northern kinds of grain become unfrequent, and rice is found to predominate. The...predominates in the southern provinces of the United Slates. In the torrid zone, maize predominates in America, rice in Asia ; and both these grains in... | |
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